Post 1947, India is merely an experiment, which is unlikely to succeed. It was an unique experiment in the true sense of the world. At no point in the history of mankind had such a large and plural society taken refuge in democracy.
A glance at western civilization will show the growth of democracy and precisely, how the policy of suffrage was slowly given to different strata of society. Here a million ingorant people where given a vote each.
The very things in which we have so often sought solcae are hurting us. Democracy, diversity, plurality...the list goes on.
A look at Russia and China will tell us how to govern a large population. Just because some western hypocrites say that democracy is the best form of governance does not count much. Remember that their modern day prosperity has a lot to do with colonialism and slavery and exploitation. This has nothing to do with democracy. They were a nation with small population and very unified social structure. India has more diversity than whole of Europe itself. Given the difference in social structure, why do we belive that their form of government will work here.
We make say that our land of glorious civilization has survived for so long, but never was this ancient land ruled by means of democracy. Perhaps the people of yore were wise enough to realize that to govern such a varied society, aithority was required more than freedom.
The choice is ours. Do we want to be the poster boy of western world or we want
